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Since many successful ploysmen have become absolute masters of Globemanship, it would be sheer folly for an amateur to fight them on their own terms. For this professional clan, you must adopt certain specific ploys that work to embarrass the "traveler" and make him feel guilty for his "trip." This aspect of Globemanship will be diagrammed tomorrow...
...Castillo Armas decree left unanswered one big question: Will the United Fruit Co. get back some or all of the 400,000 acres it lost by expropriation under the deposed government? At the moment, the company is being careful to avoid any moves which might embarrass the new government. The company's claim of $15 million as compensation for the lands expropriated by the old regime is still pending, but United Fruit is considered likely now to treat that as just one item in an overall settlement which it hopes to negotiate with the Castillo Armas regime...
...into three: a technically sovereign Soviet satellite in the East, a free area in the U.S.-British zone, and a French-occupied area. If it really wanted to be mischievous, France could create difficulties over the U.S. lines of communication to Germany, which begin in French ports. This might embarrass Germany and the U.S., but it would not help France...
Historians, amateur as well as professional, promptly began to spot gaping holes in Oggi's yarns, which were apparently designed to glorify Mussolini and embarrass the democratic politicians who now govern Italy. The English phrases attributed to Prosemaster Winston Churchill were so wooden that some other newspapers ridiculed them as "Berlitz-learned English." In one letter, "Churchill" referred to himself as Prime Minister at a time when he was still only First Lord of the Admiralty...
...laboratory at Fort Monmouth by an on-the-spot decision of Stevens, was "extremely angry" and was heard to say: "This means war . . . Don't they think I am cleared for classified information? I have access to FBI files when I want them* . . . They did this just to embarrass me. We will really investigate the Army...